Extreme Flight Simulator

[George K]

Fly a 737.

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[mark]

I might just have to pay that place a visit. After I learn how to fly a 737 in MSFS first. You don't just turn a key and go. lol

[Mik]

That would be very cool.

[George K]

@Mik in Gurnee - about 45 minutes from my home.

ETA: Years and years ago, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry had a "Flight Simulator" ride that was sponsored by the US Navy.

You got into a thing that looked like a van - seated 4 across and, I believe 4 rows. There was a projected video on a screen in front. The whole thing was on gimbals, so that when the video showed you catapulted off a carrier deck, the entire apparatus acutely tilted backward. All of the video was coordinated with movements of the ride.

Even if you knew it was a simulation, and probably a poor one at that, the sensations were very, very convincing.

[Copper]

@George-K said in Extreme Flight Simulator:

Even if you knew it was a simulation, and probably a poor one at that, the sensations were very, very convincing.

Remember when Disney created the Mission: Space ride? It was a shuttle simulator. It made so many people sick that they took half the ride and removed the motion simulation. Then people had the option to ride the stationary simulator. I rode it. I didn't get sick, but I could understand why people did.

[bachophile]

just started reading this weekend

[Copper]

The Netflix version of the story

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[89th]

I would immediately try and make the plane do a loop or a barrel roll. Also, probably a good thing I'm not a pilot.

Looks very cool though... I bet in a few decades planes are flown completely by a computer perhaps with a pilot on standby.